Poets and the Peacock dinner. The literary history of a meal /

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On January 18, 1914, seven male poets gathered to eat a peacock. W.B. Yeats and Ezra Pound, the celebrities of the group, led four lesser-known poets to the Sussex manor house of the man they were honouring, Wilfrid Scawen Blunt: the poet, horse-breeder, Arabist, and anti-imperialist married to Byro...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: McDiarmid, Lucy
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Corby : Oxford University Press, 2014.
Subjects:
Blunt, Wilfrid Scawen, > 1840-1922.
Plarr, Victor, > 1863-1929.
Moore, T. Sturge > (Thomas Sturge), > 1870-1944.
Yeats, W. B. > (William Butler), > 1865-1939.
Pound, Ezra, > 1885-1972.
Aldington, Richard, > 1892-1962.
Flint, F. S. > (Frank Stuart), > 1885-1960.
Aldington, Richard, > 1892-1962
Blunt, Wilfrid Scawen, > 1840-1922
Flint, F. S. > (Frank Stuart), > 1885-1960
Moore, T. Sturge > (Thomas Sturge), > 1870-1944
Plarr, Victor, > 1863-1929
Pound, Ezra, > 1885-1972
Yeats, W. B. > (William Butler), > 1865-1939
1900-1999
English poetry > 20th century > History and criticism.
Poets, English > 20th century > Biography.
Dinners and dining > England > Sussex > History > 20th century.
Poésie anglaise > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Poètes anglais > 20e siècle > Biographies.
POETRY > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Dinners and dining
English poetry
Poets, English
England > Sussex
Biography
Biographies
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Biographies.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue : seven poets and a peacock
  • Male poets in proximity
  • Lady Gregory's ideas
  • Victorian adultery
  • A woman's sonnets
  • Alliances and rivalries
  • The naked muse
  • "a really important event"
  • A live tradition
  • Epilogue : the long peacock dinner.

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